Algorithms Contract Job Trends in the North West

Algorithms
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 108 119
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 5 17 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 3.09% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile £169 £478 £440
25th Percentile £183 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.89% +7.14% +0.48%
75th Percentile £528 £669 £656
90th Percentile £579 £680 £665
England median daily rate £550 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.64% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £22.59 -
25th Percentile - £22.72 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £25.43 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.76% -17.53%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £29.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +150.00%

All Generic Skills
North West

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,019 551 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.40% 28.29% 25.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 378 447
10th Percentile £313 £208 £286
25th Percentile £375 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £456 £493
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -7.61% -1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £680
England median daily rate £520 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 34 78
10th Percentile £20.38 £22.73 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.49 £26.41 £15.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £29.90 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +83.95% +18.42% -19.82%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.83 £37.44
90th Percentile £101.46 £76.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.50
% change year-on-year +31.23% -4.48% +58.94%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the North West

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -43 2 £500 -10.51% 13
Merseyside - 2 £205 - 1
Cheshire -23 1 £600 +6.67% 2
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (40.00%) Key Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS